History teaching is far from the biggest crisis in American education. But it is a problem nevertheless, and a neglected one. A broad effort to create voluntary national standards does not include history.
No Child Left Behind, George Bush’s education law, tests pupils on maths, reading and science. On February 14th Barack Obama stressed the importance of teaching science, technology and 21st-century skills.
Meanwhile America’s schoolchildren score even more poorly in history than in maths: 64% of high-school seniors scored “basic” on a national maths test in 2009, but only 47% reached that level on the most recent national history test.
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There is an old saying, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." Sometimes you can learn something but sometimes it is hard to retain it. I am like that with math. If I don't practice it, I will forget it. It is not that it is useless. It is just a matter of fact for some people. That's why we have the ability to research, so we can look things up. Somethings we will always know but others we are not going to remember as easily. But that's just me.
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